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<h2>CRANIUM: An Interface for Message Passing on Adaptive Packet Routing Networks
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Neil R. McKenzie, Kevin Bolding, Carl Ebeling and Lawrence Snyder.
"CRANIUM: An Interface for Message Passing on Adaptive Packet Routing Networks",
<em>Proceedings of the 1994 Parallel Computer Routing and Communication
Workshop</em>, May 1994.

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<em> Abstract </em><p>
Cranium is a processor-network interface for an interconnection
network based on adaptive packet routing.  Adaptive networks
relax the restriction that packet order is preserved; packets
may be delivered to their destinations in an arbitrary sequence.
Cranium uses two mechanisms:  an automatic-receive interface
for packet serialization and high performance,
and a rendezvous interface for flexibility.
To minimize software overhead, Cranium is directly accessible
by user-level programs.  Protection for user-level message
passing is implemented by mapping user-level handles into
physical node identifiers and buffer addresses.

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